• So the RRHOF is only "allowing" the original Kiss members to be inducted, while at the same time Nirvana's original drummer, Chad Channing,  will not be inducted. And supposedly The Grateful Dead (previously inducted) were asked which members they would like inducted. I guess you have to have some kind of stipulation regarding which members can be inducted but there is no method to the madness here.
• Head on over to those idiots at Goldieblox where you can see the official apology to The Beastie Boys (scroll way down). Also the setllement includes the following-via COS, via The Rolling Stone:

"Rolling Stone reports that the settlement includes a payment by GoldieBlox, “based on a percentage of its revenues, to one or more charities selected by Beastie Boys that support science, technology, engineering and mathematics education for girls.”

• Longview, TX has paid The Motor City Madman NOT to perform at their 4th of July concert. But not everyone agrees....
• Wu-Tang Clan cannot seem to get their anniversary album released due to what I will cite as "creative differences" - welcome to the Battle of the Dueling Bands!!!
• There is a crowd funding campaign to acquire Kurt Cobain's childhood home and turn it in to a museum. It isn't going well so far with only $795.00 of the requested $700,000.00 in donations received. Usually the pattern is a very high amount of contributions early on and then everyone latches on from there - maybe the word isn't out yet....
• Interesting read of 13 Bands That Have Destroyed Their Legacy. Weezer and The Grateful Dead - really?? And they listed the wrong reason on Metallica - it wasn't Napster, it was Load and Re-Load that "destroyed" their legacy. 
• Well in the last week I made one show I had no plans on attending and missed another that I had tickets in hand for.....

Dueling Band List

• KISS vs. RRHOF vs. Ace and Peter vs.........
• Wu-Tang Clan vs. Wu-Tang Clan
• Beastie Boys vs. GoldieBlox (Resolved)
• Hawkwind vs. Nik Turner's Hawkwind (Resolved)
• Black Flag vs. Flag
• Oren Kaplan vs. Eugene Hutz (Gogol Bordello)
• The Turtles vs. SiriusXM
• Bun E. Carlos & David Frey vs. Cheap Trick
• Pandora/Spotify etc.  vs. Musicians
• Scott Weiland vs. STP
• Current version of Beach Boys vs. any former Beach Boy who is not in the current version
• Former Vandenburg members vs. Adrian Vandenberg
• J. Geils Band vs. John Geils/Francesa Records
• Live vs. Ed Kowalcyzk
• Queensryche & Geoff Tate
• T&N and Dokken
• Kyuss & Kyuss Lives!
• Creedence Clearwater Revisited and John Fogerty
• War and The Lowrider Band
• Blood, Sweat and Tears and David Clayton Thomas (kind of)
• Steppenwolf & John Kay's Steppenwolf